Nigeria’s Plans to Castrate Rapists & Execute Pedophiles Slammed By UN

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The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has slammed plans by Nigeria to castrate rapists and execute pedophiles as “draconian”

She argues that “Penalties like surgical castration and bilateral salpingectomy will not resolve any of the barriers to accessing justice, nor will it serve a preventive role”

In September the governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state signed a law saying men convicted of rape would be subjected to surgical castration, with those found guilty of raping a child under the age of 14 facing the death penalty.

Breitbart reports: Now Bachelet, the former President of Chile,  has expressed her anger at the proposal.

“Tempting as it may be to impose draconian punishments on those who carry out such monstrous acts, we must not allow ourselves to commit further violations,” she said.

In a statement regarding the adoption of the law in Nigeria, Bachelet said the main argument made for instituting the death penalty is to deter rape. She argued that the belief punishment prevents sexual assaults is wrong.

The human rights chief said “the certainty of punishment, rather than its severity, deters crime.”

“Penalties like surgical castration and bilateral salpingectomy will not resolve any of the barriers to accessing justice, nor will it serve a preventive role,” Bachelet argued.

“Surgical castration and salpingectomy violate the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under international human rights law.”

During recent periods of lockdown, the number of reported rape cases in Nigeria rose dramatically.

From March to July, Nigeria documented 717 rape cases and 7,170 unreported rapes across the country. For comparison, Nigeria’s Bureau of Statistics said that over 2,200 cases of rape and indecent assault were reported for 2017.

Despite the recent spike in rape cases, Nigeria has long suffered from high rates of sexual violence. “One in four girls and ten percent of boys have been victims of sexual violence” in Nigeria, UNICEF reported.

On May 27, a Christian university student was brutally raped and bludgeoned to death by a group of men while studying alone in a church in Benin City, Breitbart News reported. Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, 22, had gone to the local Redeemed Christian Church of God, of which she was a member, to read “in preparation for a possible reopening of school” following coronavirus lockdowns.

“We are all devastated by her death. She decided to do some private studies during the lockdown because the church was peaceful. She’s been taking the key from the parish pastor and returning it after her studies,” Olaitan Olubiyi, a spokesman for the church, said.

“But that day she didn’t return it and the night guard who resumed duty found her in a pool of her own blood and half-naked in the church hall,” he said.

The guard found Omozuwa unconscious and rushed her to a hospital shortly after. She regained consciousness briefly in the hospital and was able to provide an account of the attack. According to Omozuwa, “she had been reading all alone in the church when she was ambushed by unknown men, who beat, raped, and hit her head with a fire extinguisher.”

Omozuwa died from her injuries on May 30, according to the report. On June 2, local media reported that Nigerian police had arrested one suspect in Omozuwa’s rape and murder based on a fingerprint found on the fire extinguisher used to beat her.

13 Comments

  1. I vote for execution because there are no second offenders, it’s a sure cure and sends them to hell faster.

  2. “The human rights chief said “the certainty of punishment, rather than its severity, deters crime.”

    Actually, it’s both certainty of punishment and severity of punishment that deters crime.

    The Islamic way of criminal punishment seems more appropriate, where the family of a victim is delegated the right to define and administer criminal punishment.

    Deterring violent crime is a lot cheaper and more ethical than letting crime happen and using taxpayer funds to compensate the victim, which in reality is what the stupid UN high commissioner is saying.

    Another way to deter crime is to publicly identify people with Democrat and Neocon style ideology, and then concentrate police surveillance and resources on their inbred perverse and evil criminal behaviors.

    For example, a guaranteed way to stop 99.9% of gun crime in the US is to disarm all Democrats and all Neocons, and to use police forces to insure they are always disarmed.

    • Vlad Tepes is famous for deterring crime by using severity of punishment.

      Vlad Tepes was so successful deterring crime in Romania that he placed a golden chalice in the middle of a town square to tempt criminals (aka Democrats and Neocons), and none would touch the golden chalice in fear of being impaled alive.

    • The stupid UN woman likely believes that jail time is a severe punishment, but in reality it deters crime because the criminal is re-located out of public circulation and away from potential victims..

  3. The process should be Emasculation , death ,then deportation. The criminal will never commit another crime . This is another reason the Hollyweird Stars, Elites , and left wing leaders are scared sh++less is Trump is going after Pedos.

  4. It’s a fact that castration doesn’t deter rape. The mental, emotional and psychological states that brought about the action in the first place haven’t been dealt with. Consequently, the desire is still present. So, it is necessary to deal with that. Thing is, it is not known who will rape or when it may happen. Hence, there is no way to prevent it.

  5. actually that would stop or at least curb the crime…the UN is a clueless waste of time and needs to be dismantled..

  6. Since when is it the UN’s job to interfere with a sovereign country’s right to enact judicial punishment as they see fit.

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